Professorship for Literary Studies and Methodology of Teaching Literature

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

On the basis of a concept of literature that encompasses narrative, dramatic and lyrical texts as well as media related to literature, such as film, radio plays or picture books, the Chair of Literary Studies and Didactics deals with German literature from the 17th to the 21st century. In the sense of its interface function between literary studies and didactics of literature, an essential concern of the professorship is to describe and research processes of understanding and interpreting literature as well as intersubjective understanding of literary objects. Specifically, the professorship deals with the topic of the development of literature-related comprehension skills in childhood and adolescence, including the diagnosis and detailed description of these skills. Another of its concerns is the teaching of principles and procedures of theory-based analysis of literary texts and literature-related media. In addition, it examines the problem of literary interpretation and explores methods for promoting the understanding of literature, especially literary conversation, but also scenic play and creative and scientific writing.

Main research areas

The research activities of the professorship concentrate on the study of narrative literary texts of the 17th to the 21st century from the perspective of the history of ideas and motifs as well as from the perspective of the genres of poetry and the theory of intermediality. A special focus is currently on the study of narrative literature of the 19th century from a perspective that attempts to combine questions of the history of ideas with questions of aesthetics of effect under the motto "suspense" (see "Projects").

  1. Guest lectures
  2. Theodor Storm, „Geh nicht hinein“

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    25.01.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. "Was ist Literaturdidaktik?"

    Albes, C. (Lecturer)

    08.01.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. "Wege ins Totenreich. Stifters 'Gang durch die Katakomben'"

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    30.06.200502.07.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. "W. G. Sebald über Robert Walser über Heinrich von Kleist. Der Dichter als Literaturhistoriker"

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    23.03.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. William Butler Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    17.01.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. "Zur Dialektik von Langeweile und Spannung in der Stifter-Rezeption von 1847 bis heute"

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    26.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Conference Presentations
  9. Das Andere und das Fremde. Plädoyer für eine begriffliche Differenzierung im Rahmen der Literaturdidaktik.

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    03.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. „Das ewig Dauernde in uns“. Immanenz und Transzendenz in Stifters Nachsommer

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    24.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Das Verschwinden der Landschaft („Kazensilber“)

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    30.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Die Unheimlichkeit der Heimat in W. G. Sebalds "Schwindel. Gefühle."

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    20.09.201722.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Einführung

    Albes, C. (Speaker) & Gann, T. (Speaker)

    24.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Hartmut Langes Novelle "Die Bildungsreise". Parodistische Verabschiedung oder Renaissance einer Gattung?

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    25.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Interpretation und Kontextualisierung. Interkulturelle Perspektiven​

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    22.09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Kosmische Zyklen und Endzeitphantasien bei Johann Peter Hebel

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    24.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Literaturdidaktik und Raum. Zur Semantisierung von Raum in Grimms „Die Kinder zu Hameln“ und Disneys „The Pied Piper“

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    20.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Radikale Mehrdeutigkeit und „Wahnsinn“ um 1850. Adalbert Stifters Hiob-Novelle „Abdias“.

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    26.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Robert Walser / W. G. Sebald. Dichterporträts

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    12.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Stifters Erzählung "Prokopus": Novelle oder 'Anti-Novelle'?

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    25.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Vortrag: "W. G. Sebalds 'englische Wallfahrt' >Die Ringe des Saturn<"

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    07.03.200111.03.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch